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Warren J. "Puggy" Moity, Jr.
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'''Warren James Moity, Sr.''', known as '''Puggy Moity''' (April 10, 1923 – January 9, 1997), <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151620028/warren-james-moity|title=Warren James Moity, Sr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=November27November 27, 2018}}</ref> was a colorful [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] from New Iberia, [[Louisiana]]. Considered to be in the mold of the popular [[Governor]] [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], Moity was known for scurrilous attacks on political figures.<ref name=ourcampaigns>{{cite web|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=162477|title=Warren J. "Puggy" Moity|publisher=Our Campaigns|date=January 11, 1997|accessdate=November 27, 2018}}</ref>
Though he never held office himself, Moity was one of seventeen [[primary]] candiates candidates for governor in 1971. In that race, he accused frontrunner and final winner [[Edwin Edwards]] of being [[homosexual]]. Edwards approached responded by approaching Moity at a campaign gathering at the Capitol House Hotel in [[Baton Rouge]] and kissed him on the cheek, evoking much laughter from those in the room. Moity polled 8,965 votes, less than 1 percent of the total ballots cast. He also ran for the Louisiana State Senate while seeking the governorship. He also ran on several occasions for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district seat, since reconfigured.<ref name=ourcampaigns/>
In 1975, he ran for state insurance commissioner against fellow Democrat Sherman Albert Bernard, Sr. (1925-2012) at the behest of Bernard's principal opponent, former [[Mayor]] Victor H. Schiro of [[New Orleans]]. Schiro wanted Moity to attack Bernard so that Schiro could rise above the mudslinging.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxT6MC5lLd8|title=Warren J. "Puggy" Moity on KLNI TV 15 New Iberia, Lousiana|publisher=YouTube.com|date=March 21, 2013|accessdate=November 27, 2018}}</ref> Bernard, however, won his second term in the office, as Schiro finished with just 16 percent of the ballots cast.
Often Moity purchased half-hour television spots as a forum to ridicule candidates that he opposed. Many responded to the broadcasts though they had no intention of voting for Moity himself. Later, a critic set off a bomb under Moity's car, and though he was not injured, most of his political attacks ceased thereafter.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]]'', November 27, 2018.</ref>
Moity and his wife, the former Velma Richard (1926-2017), a native of Opelousas in St. Landry Parish, had three children: Margaret Coco (born July 18, 1946) and husband Myron "Buddy" Coco of New Iberia, Patricia Casey (born February 19, 1950) and husband Leonhard E. Casey of New Orleans, and son, Warren J. "Puggy" Moity, Jr.(born August 23, 1962), and wife Marylaura Coulter Moity of Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish. The Moitys are interred at Memorial Park Cemetery in New Iberia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185345295/velma-moity|title=Velma Richard Moity|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=November 27, 2018}}</ref>
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